jmg3637

Wow  looks like it just happened.  His ebay  site  shows that he is no longer a registered user, but the last transactions  posted in July

What about BeerBong?

He is still the self proclaimed "First Comic Dealer" and court approved valuation EXPERT

He showed up here  and was promptly  run off

Just got another set in from Blissard.  Starting from reverse order, the first few are upgrades, 

I was so happy to upgrade the Bonanza.  The first copy I got at the end of a local con, and I really did not look at how bad the cover was.  Wanted to upgrade  as soon as I was home

Glen

Your research and analysis on the subject of missing four colors has caused me to delve onto the situation.

It seems as though you have renumbered some of the books between your earlier list and the scans you recently posted.

While I agree with most of the books published I think there is a different way to analyze  their order.  If you look at the publishing number they are usually broken up into 3 sets of numbers.  The last set is always an indication of the month and year published 

so therefore all books ending in 207 were published in the seventh month of the year ending in 2  or July 1962.

The middle three digits vary, but seem to be able to be used as an ordering and for the 207 issues the numbers run from 053 (  Ken and Barbie which you ID'd as the first missing issue 1217) to 879 The Untouchables which you picked as 1327.  Lining the books up as i suggest   matches quite nicely with your listing  with the major difference being the Mother Moose would drop from 1277  to 1322  and the books up to Follow the Sun  would each jump on spot on the missing list..Part of this analysis also slots in Gyro Gearloose  which has a # of 01-329-207  as filling spot 1315.  The Numbers from 1316 through 1327  now match your list.

I have not yet understood the first 2 digits which are always 01  or 12, but treating the 12's as coming after the last of the 01's  seems to agree with your work.

A similar analysis of the 208 issues lines the first 4 of those exactly as you have, but would bump Three Stooges from issue 1356  all the way up to 1340 

Moving on to the 209 issues.  The first of those 057 Beany and Cecil would fall to 1342, and each other issue you mention would  fall one slot.

Treating the 210 the same way reorders the 1357+ issues with the series finally dying with the lone 211 issue Goofy Scoutmaster coming in at 1363.

I believe there are other books which could be slotted into this revised list  such as Barbie and ken #2  with a number pf 12-053-210

Amazing Missing books Glen.  

Certainly at least a few of those I had never seen or even heard of previously, especially the Blue Phantom

So with all of these new images do you have any more under copies  to pass on?

Here is my latest slab,  and a First Series to boot.  I think I have a dozen slabbed issues, but even after these last two additions I am still in 25th place on the registry.

weekend project seems to often revolve around working on collection and organization

Enjoyed reading and seeing pics from SDCC,  but for many reasons I enjoyed  the torpedo con much more.

here is the slabbed book I got from Harley

There is no rush on emptying your cart scrooge.  I probably wont have time to build and send them a box  for trade until after my tax season in October.

I enjoy searching  their new in stock daily.  The other day I added two books to my basket  and by the next morning they had both been sold.  Guess those (1102A and 1164 )might have been harder issues to locate.

I hope to at least break 1200 issues by the end of the year

Wanted to do a Market report on the State of FOur Colors at  the recent Torpedo Con.

Out of the 20 or so dealers who were there, less than half  a single issue and several more only had one

Bedrock had 7 slabbed issues  and Harley had the same, but while they were all high grade only  one was slabbed. I ended up with two of Harley's books. Bedrock and I hope to be able to work another mail deal

Metro only had 4, all of them the biggest of the Ducks.

Then there was Terry who brought a box from his inventory specifically at my request. I was able to find 28 books, mostly mid-grade, to fill holes the earliest of which was #5 raggedy Ann. Terry has worked his way into my top 10 trading partners with  51 issues now residing in my accumulation, however I fear than I have nearly depleted his inventory of the issues I still need.

After the show my updated census shows that I have 1173 issues and my wants are down to 175.  Mycomicshop.com still leads the way with 86 issues.  Most of the remaining issues are not that difficult to locate.  I actually have 98 issues in my Active basket with MCS,  and there are many more that are on consignment so are only in my Save for Later section of the basket. 

Scans will follow later

I think I was able to ask every dealer if they had any Four Colors.   As expected most of them had not brought any , but quickly added they had hundreds back at their store or warehouse.  I will send my revised want list out to several of them in a few weeks. I am down to only needing 175 issues to complete both 1st and 2nd series

on my fifth stop I finally found Metro who had only 4, all of them early Ducks.  Bedrock had 7 but the only one I needed was # 9 and it was out of my price range.  I found a cgc 2.0 little lulu that  way over priced among the three comic dealers that were relegated to the ART room so i did not even to try to negotiate 

finally got to my main target Terry.  he had pulled a box as per my request.  spent quite a while going his books, and then having him go through several boxes of mine.  we then did some horse trading and he got a really nice flash 139  as well about a dozen others.  I got a nice stack of about 30 four colors headed by the first raggedy Ann #5 and #43  an early Popeye.

while this deal was working its way I got to see a lively discussion between Terry and Mike carbanaro regarding splitting a book. not sure how much of it was Schtick 

after completing that deal I was going to circle back to metro and try to work a deal for the low grade #4 first series when I spotted a four color on Harvey's table. i had  asked one of his workers hours earlier  who said they would be filed alpha and confirmed that they had none so wad surprised to see that one.  harley saw my list and and quickly found a small stack of file copies he had recently obtained as well as a sweet 9.0 slabbed 140.  upshot was that I filled two holes with very high grade issues and Harley got a nice wwbn 32 and a couple of other books. I got cash to balance the deal , but I never made it back to Metro to attempt to strike a deal for the first Donald in the first series

all the more reason to come back next year 

I was cleaning out a closet the other day  and found my stash of Action Figures. I used to go by ToyRUS and and target and pick up discounted figures  or others that I liked.  I have somewhere between 50-100 all still OC  mostly MOC,  but a few are well worn cards.  Mostly Star Trek  and DC figures.  Is there an easy site where I can look to see if I have any that ended up being valuable?

I know Chuck is in his early 60's ( as am I)  and it is very hard to imagine him selling out.  He is such a type A personality I cannot conceive of him not being involved in at least 10 projects at any point in time, and as much as he loves his farm there are only so many greenhouses and Chuck made lakes that he can occupy his time with

I was surprised at how the show had cleared out by early afternoon,  but that was the time when I was able to work out two trades to fill many holes in Four Color run.  I bunch from Terry, but mostly mid to low grade, and a couple of very sweet books from harley

The heat got to be a problem for me, but the ready supply of cold water in the hallway helped.

As a Los Angelino, I certainly plan on attending next year, and I really cannot imagine attending SD ever again.

recognized and talked to a number of the dealers,  but not to any individual boardie

Just looked at my copy of 386.  I actually bought it off ebay way prior to collecting Four Colors.  Probably the first CGC book I ever bought.  It is a PLOD 6.0 with slight professional color touch on the cover

Seems like a pretty strong price, but is a great copy of a key book that intersects many collectors want lists.  I can appreciate the book even though I can't afford to play in that space.

I do hope that I am able to afford one of the lesser Mile High Four Colors  when the Verzyl books come up.

Getting ready to go to the LAX  show and hope to pick up a bunch of my missing 200 books

most of what I added were supplies.   I added a case of 2000 life x tenders plus and a case of 1000 resealable bags and boards.  filled out the order with a graded first series four color from A-1 

Not sure if I should be thanking the OP or not.  Instead of saving $25 on previous items in my basket, I ended up filling the basket almost  over $600  so I could almost "take full advantage" of the coupon.

Great job of negotiating  and and getting what you wanted in exchange for a book you did not need

Mitch

Last I looked on the website they still had over 50% left.

$25 at the door, but only 20 if you order online by I think tomorrow.

If your coming I would love to thank you in person

Jim

never used an ebay coupon

Just wanted to be clear

I can only use this on the items  from one seller, or from more than one?

I can use this to pay for items I already have won and are sitting in my basket to pay for ( about $170)  and the seller still gets the full amount?

Otherwise I would have to either "buy it now", win and PAY FOR today, or make an offer and PAY for it today?

Thanks for posting this

I will be there.  Probably wearing a  knit shirt that one of the EBAY COMICS chat board members made up back in maybe 2001?  Not sure who was there or got one but it had a chatboard "seal of approval"  patch.  I know there are quite a few refugees  from that place.

If not that  then  a t-shirt  with that shows just a portion of the classis S shield as the outer shirt is being ripped open

Nice books as usual Win

Here are some of my Missing Four Colors,  with thanks to 4GEM for digging into the mystery

I was a member of N.I.C.E.  and bought my new books from them for perhaps a couple of years in the early 90's  The discounts were pretty good and it was fun to get a box of books in the mail every month.  I took a chance and ordered big of Superman 75 death issue 100 copies as I recall.  Those took a couple of weeks longer than normal, but the order was fill.  I think on those I got  50% off  and was able to sell most of them for between 10-20 a book.  I did so well on that that I took a shot on  100 of the Die Cut cover  and Wolverine 50.  I did not do as well on those, and I must have at least 80 copies left in 9.6+.   That was the last time I really speculated on new comics.

From what I understand  this is more like a bacon wrapped filet mignon with truffle oil butter  type of show.

So can we get a roll call as to the boardies  that are actually attending?

here are the last couple from the last deal with MYCOMICSHOP

Inspite of their overly harsh grading I will likely  go through and pull another box to send off to them.  They do seem to buy and sell more comics than any other dealer around and their website is a pleasure to work with

and a couple more from this year.  Always have extra appreciation for any book below 100

These were from my last batch from MyComicShop.com 

Not sure how cheap  that $20  was back in 1947.

Inflation in the 71 succeeding years  would a factor  of about 11.5  so $230 now

Very nice  Church Four Color.  Hope to be able to pick up at least a couple of the Verzyl copies  when they come to market